Climate and average weather in Ninh Hòa

In Ninh Hòa, the summers are muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly cloudy.

Best: early January to late March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ninh Hòa typically varies from 20°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 35°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while January is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ninh Hòa for warm-weather activities is from early January to late March.

Hottest
Aug
32°
Coldest
Jan
20°
Wettest
Nov
275 mm
Driest
Feb
30 mm
Rain / yr
1575 mm
198 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
7 m
12.5°N
Clearest
Mar
51% cloud

Ninh Hòa is town in South Central Coast, Vietnam.

Density
192/km²
people per km²
Founded
2010

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Ninh Hòa weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early January to late March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Ninh Hòa, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Ninh Hòa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 32°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is January, with an average low of 20°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 8°C) in August.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2520
Feb2720
Mar2922
Apr3024
May3225
Jun3225
Jul3225
Aug3225
Sep3124
Oct2923
Nov2722
Dec2521

How hot and cold Ninh Hòa really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Ninh Hòa feels like about 37°C (around May 24). About 202 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in May.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan25252020
Feb27272020
Mar31292222
Apr34302424
May36322525
Jun36322525
Jul36322525
Aug36322525
Sep35312424
Oct32292323
Nov28272222
Dec25252121

Average hourly temperature in Ninh Hòa

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on August afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in January, near 20°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Ninh Hòa weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan25° / 20°611011.36.6
Feb27° / 20°306.311.67.0
Mar29° / 22°428.211.96.1
Apr30° / 24°6611.712.34.6
May32° / 25°15921.412.63.1
Jun32° / 25°10419.412.72.9
Jul32° / 25°8817.612.73.1
Aug32° / 25°931712.43.0
Sep31° / 24°18922.712.12.9
Oct29° / 23°26926.111.73.6
Nov27° / 22°27520.911.44.7
Dec25° / 21°19916.711.35.4

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Ninh Hòa gets about 1575 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 4.0 months, from around Aug 17 to Dec 17, peaking in October at about 87% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 8.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 275 mm over about 21 wet days; February is the driest, with 30 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 3 · 87%Feb 8 · 22%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3110
Feb236
Mar278
Apr4012
May6721
Jun6619
Jul5618
Aug5517
Sep7623
Oct8326
Nov7021
Dec5517

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ninh Hòa collects about 1575 mm of rain across 198 wet days — roughly 131 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 275 mm, while February is the driest at just 30 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 47% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec613042661591048893189269275199
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan6110
Feb306
Mar428
Apr6612
May15921
Jun10419
Jul8818
Aug9317
Sep18923
Oct26926
Nov27521
Dec19917

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Ninh Hòa, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around January 22 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around May 12. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 62% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 13 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around November 6. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 14 · 64%Sep 14 · 11%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3169
Feb5248
Mar6238
Apr5644
May3070
Jun2179
Jul2179
Aug1783
Sep1288
Oct2476
Nov3169
Dec2476

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around May 27, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.36:135:33
Feb11.66:105:46
Mar11.95:565:51
Apr12.35:355:52
May12.65:235:57
Jun12.75:226:06
Jul12.75:296:09
Aug12.45:356:00
Sep12.15:365:40
Oct11.75:375:20
Nov11.45:465:11
Dec11.36:025:18

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Ninh Hòa averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around Jan 29 to May 14. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is September, down near 1 sunny days — about 88% fewer than the March peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedMar 1512 daysSep 211 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar12Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May5Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug2Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

Ninh Hòa is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is March, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 96% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 3% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan32752170
Feb22255220
Mar0344520
Apr0012817
May0018217
Jun0068310
Jul0022771
Aug0032652
Sep0011872
Oct0110872
Nov0426700
Dec21447370

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Ninh Hòa is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 3 · 6 km/hSep 30 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May4calm
Jun4calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Ninh Hòa

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Ninh Hòa sits in the Pacific typhoon belt; the season peaks July–October.

Ninh Hòa's rainy season runs May–May, when most of the year's rain falls.

Pacific typhoon
Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Ninh Hòa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Ninh Hòa throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid March, Ninh Hòa is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Ninh Hòa for general outdoor tourist activities is from late December to late March, with a peak score in the second week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 8 · 7.1

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan6.6good
Feb7.0good
Mar6.1good
Apr4.6fair
May3.1poor
Jun2.9poor
Jul3.1poor
Aug3.0poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct3.6fair
Nov4.7fair
Dec5.4fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Ninh Hòa for hot-weather activities is from early January to late April, with a peak score in the second week of March.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMar 11 · 7.4

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Ninh Hòa, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

For a warm-season trip around August (highs near 32°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around January (highs near 25°C), pack light clothes and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In August, Ninh Hòa sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 17 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Ninh Hòa

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 30 km away) is warmest in September at about 29°C and coldest in January near 25°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan25Warm
Feb25Warm
Mar26Warm
Apr27Warm
May29Tropical
Jun29Tropical
Jul28Tropical
Aug29Tropical
Sep29Tropical
Oct28Warm
Nov27Warm
Dec26Warm

UV index (midday) in Ninh Hòa by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Ninh Hòa peaks around August 18 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 9 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highAug 18UV 13Dec 16UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Ninh Hòa

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in August the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan75
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86.5
May86
Jun8.56
Jul86
Aug8.56.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov75
Dec6.54

Air quality in Ninh Hòa by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Ninh Hòa is worst in April — around 31 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (December, 17 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateApr 1331 µg/m³Dec 1317 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan20Moderate
Feb20Moderate
Mar28Moderate
Apr31Moderate
May24Moderate
Jun21Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct23Moderate
Nov18Moderate
Dec17Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ninh Hòa is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Ninh Hòa banks about 5,863 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan387
Feb374
Mar472
Apr510
May561
Jun550
Jul572
Aug577
Sep525
Oct490
Nov437
Dec407

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Ninh Hòa receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.1 and 6.2 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.0 months, from around Feb 16 to Sep 15. The brightest month is April, averaging about 6.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is December, down near 3.2 kWh/m² — roughly 47% less than the April peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmerbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseApr 196.2 kWhDec 143.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan3.9Moderate
Feb4.8Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr6.1Intense
May5.8Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep4.9Bright
Oct4.3Bright
Nov3.6Moderate
Dec3.1Moderate

Where is Ninh Hòa?

Ninh Hòa sits at 12.5°N, 109.1°E, 7 m above sea level, in Vietnam. The nearest listed city is Nha Trang, 28 km away.

Da LatKhánh HảiBuôn Hồ

Topography around Ninh Hòa

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Ninh Hòa.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ninh Hòa has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 87 m around an average of 8 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,345 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,408 m.

The land around Ninh Hòa is covered by cropland (38%), artificial surfaces (29%) and trees (28%) within 3 km, trees (48%) and cropland (22%) within 16 km, and trees (49%) and water (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
87 m
16 km
1,345 m
80 km
2,408 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Nha Trang 28 km · Tu Bông 36 km · Cam Ranh 64 km · Tuy Hòa 70 km · Phước An 93 km · Da Lat 96 km · Khánh Hải 101 km · Buôn Hồ 103 km

Vietnam travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type A / B / C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 29% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$5,066
2025
Happiness
6.4 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
59%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.5
per 100k, 2011
Road deaths
30.6
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 500
Religion
none 86%Catholic 6%Buddhist 6%Protestant 1%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Ninh Hòa (12.4919°, 109.1249°, elevation 7 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).